Announcing the nominees of the 19th annual Doug Wright Awards!
Posted on 29. Mar, 2023 by Conan Tobias in Uncategorized
Here they are—the nominees for the 19th annual Doug Wright Awards!
The Doug Wright Award for best book
Ducks
Kate Beaton
Drawn & Quarterly
Time Zone J
Julie Doucet
Drawn & Quarterly
Shelterbelts
Jonathan Dyck
Conundrum Press
The Flamingo
Guojing
Random House Studio
Kwändür
Cole Pauls
Conundrum Press
You Know, Sex
Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
Triangle Square
The Nipper: The Doug Wright Award for emerging talent
Emily Carrington
Our Little Secret
Drawn & Quarterly
Jonathan Dyck
Shelterbelts
Conundrum Press
Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet
We Were Younger Once
Conundrum Press
Lynette Richards
Call Me Bill
Conundrum Press/Emanata Imprint
Adam de Souza
Blind Alley No. 1, ISH
Self-Published, Silver Sprocket
The Pigskin Peters: The Doug Wright Award for best small- or micro-press book
The Life I Want
Patrick Allaby
Self-Published
Assorted Baggage
Matthew Daley
Black Eye Books
Where Have You Been?
Ivana Filipovich (trans: Ivana Filipovich/Andrea Hankinson)
Self-Published
Butterfly House
Troy Little and Brenda Hickey
Pegamoose Press
Thousand Oaks: Machine Mail (Part 3)
Blaise Moritz
Urban Farm Print and Sound
The Egghead: The Doug Wright Award for best kids’ book
Scout is Not a Band Kid
Jade Armstrong
Random House Graphic
Paws: Mindy Makes Some Space
Michele Assarasakorn and Nathan Fairbairn
Razorbill
Super Family! (Simon and Chester Book 3)
Cale Atkinson
Tundra Books
The Flamingo
Guojing
Random House Studio
You Know, Sex
Cory Silverberg and Fiona Smyth
Triangle Square
Nominees for the 2023 Doug Wright Awards were selected from entries of books published in the 2022 calendar year. The short list and winners were chosen by a panel of three judges for each category.
This year, a record 200 entries by Canadian authors and artists were submitted from dozens of publishers and self-published authors.
Creators with multiple nominations include Jonathan Dyck, Guojing, Cory Silverberg, and Fiona Smyth.
Publishers of multiple nominees include Conundrum, Drawn & Quarterly, Random House Studio, and Triangle Square.
Each winner will receive a small cash prize, and the winner of The Nipper will be awarded a week-long stay at the Valleyview Artist Retreat, in Caledon, Ontario. Congratulations to all of this year’s nominees!
Giants of the North: The Canadian Cartooning Hall of Fame
This year’s Giants of the North inductee is Henriette Valium (1959–2021), a comic book artist and painter, and the winner of the 2017 Pigskin Peters award, for his book The Palace of Champions.
The Ceremony
The Doug Wright Awards returns in-person and indoors for 2023, with host Dustin Harbin, at our new venue, the historic Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm Street, Toronto, on Saturday, April 29th, at 8 p.m. ET. The event will also be livestreamed on YouTube.
Judges
Thanks to this year’s judges: Sonja Ahlers, Jordan Reg. Aelick, Gillian Goerz, Dave Howard, Dave Lapp, Xiaoxiao Li, Linda Ludke, Joshua Rosen, Kat Sun, Andrew Townsend, Jay Aaron Roy, and Michel Vrana. Read more about each of our judges here.
Sponsors
Thanks, as well, to this year’s sponsors: Crowdfundr, Toronto Life, Koyama Provides, Broken Pencil,Valleyview Artist Retreat, Strange Adventures, the Arts & Letters Club, Super 7, the Beguiling, and the Toronto Comic Arts Festival.
About the Doug Wright Awards
The Doug Wright Awards were founded in 2005 to celebrate excellence in the field of Canadian comics. The awards are named for Doug Wright (1917–1983), the creator of the long-running strip Doug Wright’s Family (a.k.a. Nipper), one of the most widely read and loved Canadian comics of the twentieth century.
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19th annual Doug Wright Awards poster by Jay Stephens.
